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BAPTISTE v. GOVERNMENT OF VIRGIN ISLANDS

No. 2000-227.

240 F.Supp.2d 381 (2002)

Bernard BAPTISTE, Appellant, v. GOVERNMENT OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, Appellee.

District Court, Virgin Islands, Appellate Division, D. St. Thomas and St. John.

January 10, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nizar Abdullah, Assistant Territorial Public Defender, St. Thomas, VI, for Appellant.

Maureen Phelan, Assistant Attorney General, U.S.V.I. Department of Justice, St. Thomas, VI, for Appellee.

Before: RAYMOND L. FINCH, Chief Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands; THOMAS K. MOORE, Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands; and EDGAR D. ROSS, Judge of the Territorial Court of the Virgin Islands, Division of ST. CROIX, Sitting by Designation.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

PER CURIAM.

Bernard Baptiste ["Baptiste" or "appellant"] appeals his conviction for unlawful sexual contact with a minor in violation of 14 V.I. CODE ANN. § 1708(2), arguing that (1) the trial judge abused her discretion in allowing the government's expert to testify and (2) the government's comments during closing arguments concerning Baptiste's failure to provide an expert witness of his own violated his rights under the Fifth Amendment...

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